I didn't light the stove today! Anyone else out there go without heating?Temp from 65-72 in 45 minut

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VCBurner

VCBurner

Minister of Fire
Jan 2, 2010
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Templeton, MA
After a roaring fire last night reached 83 by the time we went to bed. The house was 71 at 8am and the fire had long since died down. By noon it was 68 when I openned the shades on our picture window. The house went up to 70 with the sunlight coming in. Still no fire and it's 68 in here now at 8:40pm! I think I'll try to go without any form of heating untill tomorrow morning, just to see what happens with the mild overnight low temp of 27.

Have any of you gone without lighting a fire or any form of heating today?
 
It was +2C here today but lots of cloud and I was just keeping the fire going with a split or two. Main floor LR is still 74F. Will see what temps are tomorrow. Very easy to wish that spring is here with these mild temps we've been having here, but I got a feeling mother nature has something in store for us kin the next couple of weeks.

Oh well, it gave me lots of time today to work on the floor pad for our soon to come new insert in the LR :)
 
It sure was a great day here I'll have to agree. I wouldn't have had the stove running if it were not for having guests here who my wife is just sure MUST have it warmer than we normally keep the house. Thus the stove was fed this morning despite being warmer in the house than we normally get and again this evening. Such is life. However I did get a good four hours of cutting, splitting, and stacking in during the day - was nice to be out in a t-shirt enjoying the sun. Felt like spring to me - mud and all.
 
ready to go but unlit..... :coolsmile:
 
Kept it going but it wasn't happy about drafting in the weather. Needed lots of air and temps didn't get anywhere near what I would have wanted. Main reason was it is still below 60 and in that type of weather with it getting cold again tonight, the house does drop in temp and then I have to work to get it back up to warm. When it really bothers me is when I have a few of these in a row and then am really scratching the head on whether to keep it going or not. Have plenty of wood, so why not burn a few is my thoughts.
Chad
 
I didn't have an all nighter going but it was -15°C here this morning so I scrounged up a few coals, tossed some tinder and kin'lin on it and got the fire going. Kept it going all day too and will keep it going until bedtime. The weather guessers are only calling for -9°C overnight but then again that's what they said about last night too.
 
We have been sporadically burning since January due to an abnormally warm winter. Looks like I will have to start mowing soon.
 
I'm really low on seasoned wood. This was my first season heating with wood full time, so I burned more than I expected. Now that I know how to operate properly, I'll use at least 30% less next year. But I'll still have twice as much wood ready for the next couple of years. My goal is to get three years worth ready by the spring.

However, I would not have burned today, even if I had a lot of wood. We had an outdoor high of 42 °F . It felt nice inside the house and was a good break from the routine, as much as I enjoy it. I'll definitely need a fire tomorrow morning, as temps will drop to 25 tonight and tomorrow will only reach 36. I may even light a fire before going to bed. It's 66 right now and will only get colder. With my two stoves I can get the temp from 66 to 76 in an hour! So I'm not too worried about getting the inside temp up in a hurry!!

Thanks for the responses guys!! Burn on!
 
BeGreen said:
We have been sporadically burning since January due to an abnormally warm winter. Looks like I will have to start mowing soon.
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What was your high temp today?
 
I put three big splits on the coals and an hour later didn't like how they were burning so I added a couple of smaller ones on top. About the time the stove rolled up to six hundred I looked and they have raised the low temp tonight.

Ain't gonna be cold in this joint tonight. I usually just sleep under a sheet but I may be sleeping on top of it tonight.
 
BrotherBart said:
I put three big splits on the coals and an hour later didn't like how they were burning so I added a couple of smaller ones on top. About the time the stove rolled up to six hundred I looked and they have raised the low temp tonight.

Ain't gonna be cold in this joint tonight. I usually just sleep under a sheet but I may be sleeping on top of it tonight.
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Great stuff BB, I might have to take a break from the UFC event I'm watching and see how fast I can get this puppy to 76 in here!!
 
VCBurner said:
BeGreen said:
We have been sporadically burning since January due to an abnormally warm winter. Looks like I will have to start mowing soon.
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What was your high temp today?
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57 °F
 
VCBurner said:
BrotherBart said:
I put three big splits on the coals and an hour later didn't like how they were burning so I added a couple of smaller ones on top. About the time the stove rolled up to six hundred I looked and they have raised the low temp tonight.

Ain't gonna be cold in this joint tonight. I usually just sleep under a sheet but I may be sleeping on top of it tonight.
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Great stuff BB, I might have to take a break from the UFC event I'm watching and see how fast I can get this puppy to 76 in here!!
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Heck I should have been in bed an hour ago. I am trying to slow this beast down and it just wants to rock. I wish I could aim the liner at all of that snow on the roof.
 
BrotherBart said:
VCBurner said:
BrotherBart said:
I put three big splits on the coals and an hour later didn't like how they were burning so I added a couple of smaller ones on top. About the time the stove rolled up to six hundred I looked and they have raised the low temp tonight.

Ain't gonna be cold in this joint tonight. I usually just sleep under a sheet but I may be sleeping on top of it tonight.
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Great stuff BB, I might have to take a break from the UFC event I'm watching and see how fast I can get this puppy to 76 in here!!
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Heck I should have been in bed an hour ago. I am trying to slow this beast down and it just wants to rock. I wish I could aim the liner at all of that snow on the roof.
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I helped a friend run some radiant pex in his basement yesterday. He's got the whole system runnig of an outdoor wood furnace by Central Boiler. So, he ran his heat today to test out the two new loops with the windows wide open and got his house up to 80 degrees! We installed 600 feet and he already had 300 up. He's only got another 300 foot roll to go. Those radiant floors are sweet!
 
Finally I get to go to bed. Those first three big splits were N/S and when I put the two others over on top of the air channels between them I created the perfect storm of secondary burn. Three hours of it and no end in sight and hellacious temps. I just went over and collapsed the load in on itself and settled that bad boy down so that I can get some sleep.
 
BeGreen said:
VCBurner said:
BeGreen said:
We have been sporadically burning since January due to an abnormally warm winter. Looks like I will have to start mowing soon.
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What was your high temp today?
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57 °F
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Burning everyday only at night since January. Daytime temps have been nice but its still dropping to 28-30 at night these last 3 or 4 days. And I've had to mow twice now BeGreen.
 
I gave in! Temps reached 65 in here at 11:38pm. For the first time today I felt a chill. After hearing from Brother Bart I decided it would be best to throw in the towell and light'em up!! :vampire: The stove downstairs got lit at 11:38pm. It was sort of a slow start, but things picked up. Midnight now and I had to turn the air waaaaaay down! Flue temps up to 575 and the stove is well under top BTU output at 44,000. Plus, the Magic Heat kicked on two minutes after I lit the stove and is putting out 30,000 BTU's of its own. That's a total of 74,000 just in the basement. The upstairs stove was lit at 11:40pm and who knows the peak output of that old thing? There's probably not even a manual for this thing anywhere in New England! 12:10am and it's 69 degrees up here already, and climbing. Flue temps downstairs dropped down to 475 which means that the stove is still at peak output. I just turned on the fan blowing the hot air around the Box stove in the living room fireplace, dampered the gasses a little and shut the ash pan lid. Now the hot air will REALLY start blowing around the house. 70 °F at 12:16 am and I'm going back to watching my UFC fights. See ya'll later!
 
Built a small fire Friday night. Let it burn out and haven't built another one yet. Highs 60 deg. lows mid 40's.

Will build on tonight with lows @ 30 deg. I already heard the spring peepers going at it this morning.
 
There were no coals left this morning so I cleaned the glass and will wait until tonight to light a fire.

Trying to keep a fire going in these mild temps is a PITA. I dozed off for a bit last evening and the wife tended the stove. When I awoke, there was hardly any coals and one huge split smoldering. I had lost the draft so there was no way I could open the stove without letting putrid smoke in the house. ARGH!
 
LLigetfa said:
There were no coals left this morning so I cleaned the glass and will wait until tonight to light a fire.

Trying to keep a fire going in these mild temps is a PITA. I dozed off for a bit last evening and the wife tended the stove. When I awoke, there was hardly any coals and one huge split smoldering. I had lost the draft so there was no way I could open the stove without letting putrid smoke in the house. ARGH!
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Do our wives know each other? Sounds like how mine "tends the stove", sometimes.
It's been cold overnight, but mid to upper 30's during the day for a couple days now, so I've been letting the stove go almost cold before a relight in the afternoon.
 
Our stove has not went out since sometime in November and I do not expect it to go out until sometime in April. However, we don't have much fire during the day in the weather we've been having the past couple of days.

We had 35 and sunny yesterday.
 
north of 60 said:
No fire today or tonight. Lots of solar gain today and above freezing once again. Maybe tomorrow AM. We will see.
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Yep, started a fire this morning. Dropped to -5F/-21C overnight. 64F/18C in the house this AM. Wife and kids are wearing their slippers.
 
My fire went out on friday, it was 76 in the house friday afternoon so I let it go out and didn't start again until this morning. It was 67 in the house, kinda chilly, so I fired it back up as the sun isn't out. Now its a comfy 70 or so. We had temps in the 30s or low 40s during the day and high 20s at night. My wood consumption is down to a garden way cart a week:) It seems to be a pattern that Feb. warms up some and then March hammers us again so I still have plenty of wood ready
 
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